The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-03


Senator Kennedy on the Democratic Party.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
am proud that am Republican.
What is the history of the two parties? One
is the party of law and order; the other of revo
luton of riot, of boodshed ana ruin. The first
effort ever made to sever this government was
made by Aaron Burr, Democratic Vice-presi-
dent of The United States; the second by John
G. Calhoun, a Democratic Vice president of the
United States; the third, and most Internal re-
bellion of all, was got up by John c. Brock
enridge, Democratic Vice-president of the
United States. James Buchanan proved him
self traitor to his country, traitor to his God,
and traitor to humanity. 1t vas Democrats of
this stamp who left his Cabinet-Flovd, Thomp-
son and others. Senators and Representatives
who were acting under their oaths to sup
port the Constitution of the United States.
in daytime, would meet at night and plan its
destruction. Parson Brownlow, the old Ten
nessee patriot said: sThere were better men
now in hell suffering the vengeance of eternal
torment, than such men as these" Every State
that went out OF the Union. or rather attem nted
to CO. was Democratic State. led out by DEM
ocratic leaders. 1t Democrats who fired
seventeen shots at the Star of the West; it was
Democrats who fred Fort SUMTER it was
Democrats who managed and conducted the
rebellion; it was Democrats who caused the
enormous sum of So 000 0O0 900 to be paid ou.
in bounties, in wages in pensions; and there is
yet to be paid sum that is so large that you
can have no idea of it by calling
say the globe is 900 miles in
circumference, and one-dolar bill is seven
inches long, and that il the dollar bills max
ing this enormous sum were put in a line they
nj oh forf -fnpr ;roae ho <,1n ho
or make q track, or carpet, twelve feet wide
around the earth, some idea may be conceived of
it's magnitude. 1t was Democrats who starved
the Union soldiers at Andersonvile and Libby
pris0ns it was Democrats who made all the SOL
diers' widows; it was Democrats who caused so
many soldiers orphan children u cry for bread;
it was Democrats who caused so many soldiers
who are crippled for life to ask this government
to support and maintain them; it was Democrats
who caused the necessity of appropriatng $780,
600 to erect a monument to their memory; it was
Democrats who fought the battle of Pogues run,
in 1864; it was Democrats who planned to kill
Governor Morton and turn the rebel prisoners
loose; it was Democrats who stole the peoples
money for the elevated railway in New York
and now languish in Sing Sing prison; it was
Democrats who committed forgerles and defaced
the tally-sheets at CINCINNATI it was Democrats
who ran off to Chattanooga to prevent the four
scoundrels from being turned ont it was Demo
Gratis who defaced the tally-sheets of this county
and who now await the striped clothes and pris-
on OARS 1t was q democrat mo StOl6 the stare S
money at the Prison South; it a Democrat
who fed the poor. unfortunate inmates of the
asylum on maggoty butter and cholera hogs; it
was Democratic Governor who asked the opin-
ion Of Democratic Attorney general if there
was vacancy in the Lieutenant governors Of
flce, and who replied that there was; it was
the Democratic party who first nominated
its candidate for that Office; it was Democrats
who tried to enjoiu the Secretary Of State from
delivering the returns to the Speaker of the
House it was Democratic Senators who refused
TO be present at the count; it was Democrats
who refused the Lieutenant governor to take his
seat after being sworn into Office: it Demo
Gratis who enjoined him from presiding at the
joint convention to elect United States Sena-
tor. and it is now Democrats who keep him out
of his seat after Democratic court has dissolved
the injunction. 1t is Democrats who stop the
wheels of legislation and prevent the passage OF
the appropriation bills. the bill for the tax levy,
the loan bill. the bill for finishing of the State
house, the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
and the Home fo- the Feeble minded; and. also
tine bill for refundipg the domestic debt, by
which over 100000 would be saved
to the State annually, and would furnish
81 ,000 600 to be loaned to the citizens of the
State at per cent. and thereby save thousands
of dollars from going out of the State inter
est on Eastern capital now paid out by farmers
and business men of the State.
II this is not sufficient to condemn the Demo
cratic party then the doctrine Of universal sal
vaton is true. They will try TO overthrow tn,
power of God and will receive the same treat
ment the first rebel did, of whom they are the
offspring. A. NJ. KENNEDY.